Sieniawa - 19 century
Today: Poland, in 1918 - 1939 Poland. Pre 1914 Austro Hungary, pre 1795 Poland
Date: 2008
Photograph: Tomek Wi¶niewski
Email: bagnowka@yahoo.pl
The crown symbolizes the crown of the Torah
The hands held in benediction are the symbol of the Cohens .
Here lies a righteous Cohen.
Yakov [Jacob, Jakow] went on his way and left the land of the living, found light and
rest in the in the beauty of the northern fields, he will be rewarded
for his honesty and his simplicity and the advocates will speak in his favor,
was God-fearing and a believer during his life, maintained all of his actions with wisdom
and earned himself a good name, a prominent man of great…. [the remainder is below ground] (smages@comcast.net)
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